The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.

ONLY

4 letters

About ONLY

ONLY is a valid 4-letter word in OUTLIER, and one of the few with no English entry in Wiktionary - the dictionary a word game accepts is wider than the one an encyclopaedia keeps.

No definition is on file, so none is guessed at here.

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

ONLY in OUTLIER

It has fitted 15 boards so far.

Day 1Day 97
Its 15 boards, across 97 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
15
Boards it fitted
67
First board
96
Latest board
6
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 67, 26 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 96, 24 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First found by a player on Day 20, 9 June 2026.

Built from these letters

ONLY
4
Letters
1
Vowels
3
Consonants
4
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

ONLY starts with O and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read LNOY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Could you have found ONLY?

OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 67 - and most players walked straight past it.

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